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podcasts

Dr. Selzer
interview - a secular humanist surgeon and writer who discusses pretending to be a priest to a dying catholic patient, and also discusses body donation

movies

Awakenings - based
upon neurologist Oliver
Sack's book about the transient resurrection of essentially comatose patients
with encephalitis lethargica via L-DOPA. Dr. Sachs' other books are the source of more than a
few House episodes.

Ikiru - coming to terms with cancer and
death as a bureaucrat in postwar Japan

Equilibrium - "...a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs to suppress their emotions" - I would describe this as wonderfully ridiculous

'The Encyclopedia of Insanity - A Psychiatric Handbook Lists a Madness for
Everyone.' By L.J. DavisExcerpt:"Not content with the merely weird, the DSM-IV also attempts to claim dominion over the
mundane. Current among the many symptoms of the deranged mind are bad writing (315.2, and its
associated symptom, poor handwriting); coffee drinking, including coffee nerves (305.90), bad
coffee nerves (292.89), inability to sleep after drinking too much coffee (292.89), and
something that probably has something to do with coffee, though the therapist can't put his
finger on it (292.9); shyness (299.80), (also known as Asperger's Disorder); sleepwalking
(307.46); jet lag (307.45); snobbery (301.7, a subset of Antisocial Personality Disorder); and
insomnia (307.42); to say nothing of tobacco smoking, which includes both getting hooked
(305.10) and going cold turkey (292.0). You were out of your mind the last time you have a
nightmare (307.47). Clumsiness is now a mental illness (315.4). So is playing video games
(Malingering, V65.2). So is doing just about anything "vigorously." So, under certain
circumstances, is falling asleep at night."

Philip K. Dick's
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"Excerpt:
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened
Rick Deckard. Suprised--it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice--he rose from
the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched.
...
Now, in her bed, his wife Iran opened her gray, unmerry eyes, blinked, then groaned and shut her eyes
again.
"You set your Penfield too weak," he said to her. "I'll reset it and you'll be awake and--"
"Keep your hand off my settings." Her voice held bitter sharpness. "I don't want to be awake."
...
"I can't stand TV before breakfast."
"Dial 888," Rick said as the set warmed. "The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it."
"I don't feel like dialing anything at all now," Iran said.
"Then dial 3," he said.
"I can't dial a setting that stimulates my cerebral cortex into wanting to dial!"

Dr. Brian
Forrest in Apex, NC - accepts no insurance and is able to undercut even
in-network insurance copays to pass savings and quality of care to patients
(i.e. the opposite of the recently-passed health care bill)

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - "Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors--to a striking extent--still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science."